Growing up and in general life, I've never thought mixed race was anything bad or offensive or anything.
But recently I've had a lot of hate from certain people who seem to despise the concept of mixed race, people saying if you have a black ancestor you are black end of story no mixed race. Apparently if I am of African descent and don't identify as black, I hate myself and a whole bunch of stuff.
I mean I know race isn't really a scientific concept, like I acknowledge this but I just want a term to categorise what I am, it doesnt have to be anything deep.
But instead I get some rants about like colonialism, how white people introduced race to black people, like people are saying that if I don't identify as black it is because of white supremacy and stuff like that.
Why do people take this so seriously and get super offended, I was told I was using mental gymnastics to identify as mixed race and that I was '****ed up' and 'sad' and a bunch of ****.